Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XV [15]. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British Museum. Tracheophonae, or the families Dendrocolaptidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, and Pteroptochidae.

Author: Sclater, P. L.
Title: Catalogue of the birds in the collection of the British Museum. Volume XV [15]. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British Museum. Tracheophonae, or the families Dendrocolaptidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, and Pteroptochidae.
Description: London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1890. 8vo (22.1 x 14.1 cm). xviii, 372, 8 pp., 20 fine, hand-coloured or chromolithographed plates. Original blind stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. = Single part of the three-volume Passeriformes-section of this famous series, which is among the best illustrated parts. With superb illustrations by the famous Dutch bird painter Joseph Smit, who was at least as good as his colleague and fellow countryman Keulemans. Half title partly toned and with a rather rough right edge, otherwise near mint: clean and unmarked. Usually found "ex library", but this is the rare exception. Goode (1896) The Published Writings of Philip Lutley Sclater, 22; Nissen IVB, 175; 838; Zimmer, pp. 95-98.

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